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 Topic: US liberal Islamophobia is rising – and more insidious than rightwing bigotry

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  • US liberal Islamophobia is rising – and more insidious than rightwing bigotry
     OP - May 27, 2018, 01:07 AM

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    When will Muslims step up and reform Islam?” asked the self-identified “progressive and intersectional” college student, following a presentation of my book, American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, at New York University.

    The student wore a Black Lives Matter T-shirt and a colorful assortment of pins and patches on his camouflage backpack calling for “equality now” and claiming that “The future is female”. The young man, by way of verbal admission and the myriad of political statements he proudly wore, was a political progressive. And indeed, a representative of a swelling population of leftists who embrace progressive principles yet see Islam as inimical to liberal values and in conflict with American identity.
    ...

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/26/us-liberal-islamophobia-rising-more-insidious

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  • US liberal Islamophobia is rising ? and more insidious than rightwing bigotry
     Reply #1 - May 27, 2018, 06:20 AM

    I personally would say islam needs an Enlightenment, but sure, I can see why one would say reform.

    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • US liberal Islamophobia is rising – and more insidious than rightwing bigotry
     Reply #2 - May 28, 2018, 05:30 PM

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/26/us-liberal-islamophobia-rising-more-insidious

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    A diverse and eclectic litany of prominent Islamophobes occupies the left. These liberal Islamophobes, like Bill Maher and Sam Harris, weaponize atheism as an ideology that not only discredits the spiritual dimensions of Islam but also demonizes it in line with longstanding orientalist, political terms. For these new atheists, Islam is illegitimate because it is a religion, but unlike other religions, is distinctly threatening because it is inherently at odds with liberal values.

    Echoing Samuel P Huntington and the intellectual father of modern Islamophobia, Bernard Lewis, Harris writes: “While the other major world religions have been fertile sources of intolerance, it is clear that the doctrine of Islam poses unique problems for the emergence of a global civilization.”  Harris, the spearhead of the new atheist movement, which has broad appeal on the left, is a mainstay on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher. Furthermore, Harris’s influence on Maher, perhaps the most vivid and venomous liberal Islamophobe, is routinely on display on his weekly program – a program widely viewed by progressives and wildly popular with educated, cosmopolitan and middle-class liberals.




    and Khaled A Beydoun  puts out this picture under Islamophobes  


     Maajid Nawaz. He ‘peddles Islamophobia within largely cosmopolitan circles and liberal audiences’. ..

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/strait-talk-detroit-law-professor-khaled-beydoun-islamophobia-42208804

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s61B74rbyqU

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